5 For a rich discussion of all the detailed planning of the March on Washington, see Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Touchstone, 1988).

6 For this and many more quotes for the John Lewis's censored speech, see Adam Fairclough, "Civil Rights and the Lincoln Memorial: The Censored Speeches of Robert R. Moton (1922) and John Lewis (1963)," in The Journal of Negro History, Vol 82, No. 4 (Autumn, 1997), 408-416.

7 For more on Malcolm X's critique of the March on Washington see Leon F. Litwack and Winthrop D. Jordan, The United States: Becoming a World Power, Vol. II (New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1991), 784.

11 For the full text of President Lyndon B. Johnson's address before a joint session of the Congress, 27 November 1963, see http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/631127.asp, accessed 9 january 2009.

12 President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, delivered in Washington, DC, 8 January 1964; full text available at http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp, accessed 9 January 2009.

13 President Lyndon B. Johnson, State of the Union Address, 8 January 1964; full text available at .

14 A must read for anyone interested in the life of Malcolm X is Alex Haley, ed., The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Random House, 1964).

15 For more on this, read a reporter's account of the Black Panther Party in Gilbert Moore, Rage (New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. 1993).

21 Elaine Brown, A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story (New York, 1992), 185-189; Arty McMillan speaks in Voices of Black Panther Women, a conference filmed and published by the University of California at Berkeley.